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2020 Australia's Best Craft Beer Bars
5th Nov 2020
As part of the 2020 Australian Craft Beer Survey we asked you to tell us your favourite craft beer bar/pub local to your state.
Check out the results by each state below, and if you're wondering where to head for your next event/night out this should give you a pretty good guide!
Australia's Favourite Craft Beer Bar/Pub (by State)
Queensland | New South Wales | ACT | Victoria | Tasmania | South Australia | Western Australia
Queensland's Favourite Craft Beer Bar/Pub
Full results*:
| Venue | % | Total votes |
| Brewski | 8.3% | 248 |
| Bine Bar & Dining | 6.4% | 191 |
| The TapHouse Townsville | 6.2% | 185 |
| Netherworld | 4.2% | 125 |
| The Scratch Bar | 4.1% | 123 |
| Archive Beer Boutique | 3.8% | 114 |
| Saccharomyces Beer Cafe | 3.8% | 114 |
| Brewhouse Brisbane | 3.5% | 104 |
| The House of Brews | 3.4% | 101 |
| Tippler's Tap | 2.4% | 71 |
| Last Night on Earth | 2.2% | 67 |
| Taps Mooloolaba | 2.2% | 67 |
| Ze Pickle Burleigh Heads | 2.2% | 67 |
| Backbone | 2.1% | 62 |
| Bloodhound Corner Bar | 1.6% | 49 |
| Malt Traders City | 1.6% | 48 |
| The Woods Bar | 1.6% | 48 |
| Bavarian Bier Café Broadbeach | 1.5% | 45 |
| Tap'd | 1.5% | 44 |
| Bavarian Bier Café Eagle Street Pier | 1.3% | 38 |
| Tapworks Bar and Grill Coomera | 1.1% | 32 |
| The Dock Mooloolaba | 1.1% | 32 |
| Pig 'N' Whistle Riverside | 1.0% | 31 |
| Which Craft Beer | 1.0% | 30 |
*Includes all venues that got over 1% of votes.
New South Wales' Favourite Craft Beer Bar/Pub
Full results*:
| Venue | % | Total votes |
| The Grain Store | 8% | 299 |
| Bitter Phew | 7% | 261 |
| The Union Hotel | 5% | 169 |
| Royal Albert Hotel | 3% | 111 |
| The Taphouse | 3% | 111 |
| Keg & Brew | 3% | 104 |
| Dove & Olive Hotel | 2% | 83 |
| Beer Deluxe King St. Wharf | 2% | 74 |
| Warners at the Bay | 2% | 72 |
| The Noble Hops | 2% | 69 |
| The Henson | 2% | 61 |
| Harts Pub | 2% | 58 |
| His Boy Elroy | 2% | 56 |
| Quarrymans Hotel | 2% | 54 |
| Blue Gum Hotel | 1% | 49 |
| The Beach Club Collaroy | 1% | 49 |
| Frankie's Pizza | 1% | 48 |
| Forest Lodge Hotel | 1% | 46 |
| Sweeney's Rooftop Bar | 1% | 45 |
| Bucket Boys Upstairs Bar | 1% | 43 |
| The Prince | 1% | 43 |
| Petersham Bowling Club | 1% | 40 |
| The Blind Bear | 1% | 39 |
| The DOG Hotel | 1% | 39 |
| Beer Deluxe Albury | 1% | 37 |
| Welcome Hotel | 1% | 36 |
| The Australian Heritage Hotel | 1% | 34 |
| Public House Petersham | 1% | 33 |
| Bankstown Sports Club | 1% | 31 |
| Wings And Tins | 1% | 31 |
| Pumphouse Sydney | 1% | 30 |
| Yulli's | 1% | 29 |
| The Oaks | 1% | 28 |
| Dee Why Hotel | 1% | 26 |
| Hopsters Cooperative Brewery Taproom | 1% | 24 |
| The Blind Monk (Craft Beer) | 1% | 23 |
| The Winston Hills Hotel | 1% | 23 |
| FogHorn Brewhouse Central Coast | 1% | 22 |
| Rag and Famish Hotel | 1% | 22 |
| The Welder's Dog - Armidale | 1% | 22 |
| Barvarian Bier Café York Street, Sydney | 1% | 21 |
| Erskineville Hotel | 1% | 21 |
| Kincumber Hotel | 1% | 20 |
| The Happy Wombat | 1% | 19 |
| The Newtown Hotel | 1% | 19 |
| Element Bar | 1% | 18 |
| Malt Barrel Char & Bar | 1% | 18 |
| O'Donoghues Irish Pub | 1% | 18 |
*Includes all venues that got over 1% of votes.
ACT's Favourite Craft Beer Bar/Pub
Full results*:
| Venue | % | Total votes |
| Old Canberra Inn | 29% | 155 |
| To All My Friends | 11% | 60 |
| The Durham | 8% | 45 |
| The George Harcourt Inn | 8% | 40 |
| Brew Nation | 7% | 35 |
| Grease Monkey | 6% | 34 |
| Duxton | 4% | 20 |
| The Meating Room | 4% | 19 |
| Hopscotch Braddon | 3% | 15 |
| The Pot Belly Bar | 2% | 12 |
| Bar Rochford | 2% | 9 |
| Ducks Nuts Bar & Grill | 2% | 8 |
| Walt & Burley | 2% | 8 |
| Bolt Bar | 1% | 7 |
| King O'Malley's | 1% | 7 |
| Transit Bar | 1% | 7 |
| Ace High Eatery and Bar | 1% | 6 |
| 1882 Bar & Grill | 1% | 5 |
| Debacle | 1% | 5 |
| Gryphons Caffe Bar | 1% | 4 |
| Assembly | 1% | 4 |
| Temporada | 1% | 3 |
*Includes all venues that got over 1% of votes.
Victoria's Favourite Craft Beer Bar/Pub
Full results*:
| Venue | % | Total votes |
| Carwyn Cellars | 13% | 476 |
| Beer DeLuxe Melbourne | 5% | 206 |
| The Local Taphouse St Kilda | 5% | 196 |
| The Foragers Drop | 5% | 188 |
| Grape & Grain | 4% | 142 |
| Mr West | 4% | 137 |
| Beermash | 3% | 105 |
| Hop Temple | 2% | 91 |
| Great Northern Hotel | 2% | 90 |
| Bar Josephine | 2% | 87 |
| Hopheads | 2% | 80 |
| Cambrian Hotel | 2% | 78 |
| Prince Alfred Hotel | 2% | 63 |
| Boilermaker House | 2% | 59 |
| Royston Hotel | 2% | 58 |
| The Catfish | 1% | 57 |
| Beer 360 | 1% | 53 |
| Boatrocker Barrel Room | 1% | 51 |
| Hopscotch | 1% | 49 |
| Penny Young's | 1% | 47 |
| The Terminus Hotel | 1% | 46 |
| Cherry Tree Hotel | 1% | 45 |
| Mrs Parma's - Melbourne | 1% | 38 |
| Belgian Beer Cafe Melbourne | 1% | 36 |
| Slow Beer Fitzroy | 1% | 35 |
| Aireys Pub | 1% | 34 |
| Beer Deluxe Hawthorn | 1% | 34 |
| The Crafty Squire | 1% | 31 |
| Park Hotel | 1% | 30 |
| The Goods Shed, Wodonga | 1% | 29 |
| Miss Moses | 1% | 28 |
| Young & Jackson | 1% | 28 |
| Junction Beer Hall & Wine Bar | 1% | 26 |
| The Alehouse Project | 1% | 26 |
| Mr Paul's Beer & Wine | 1% | 24 |
| Heartbreaker | 1% | 22 |
| Otter's Promise | 1% | 22 |
| Cookie | 1% | 21 |
| East of Everything | 1% | 21 |
*Includes all venues that got over 1% of votes.
Tasmania's Favourite Craft Beer Bar/Pub
Full results*:
| Venue | % | Total votes |
| Saint John Craft Beer Bar | 28% | 88 |
| The Winston | 26% | 82 |
| Preachers | 15% | 45 |
| Empress Craft Beer | 8% | 26 |
| Jack Greene | 5% | 15 |
| The Whaler | 4% | 13 |
| Tandy's Alehouse | 4% | 12 |
| Boodle Beasley | 3% | 10 |
| New Sydney Hotel | 2% | 5 |
| Tasman Quartermasters | 1% | 3 |
| Wandering Trout Crafty Ales | 1% | 2 |
*Includes all venues that got over 1% of votes.
South Australia's Favourite Craft Beer Bar/Pub
Full results*:
| Venue | % | Total votes |
| NOLA Adelaide | 16% | 173 |
| The Wheatsheaf Hotel | 14% | 148 |
| Gilbert Street Hotel | 10% | 109 |
| Coopers Alehouse Gepps Cross | 5% | 54 |
| Uraidla Hotel | 5% | 51 |
| Franklin Hotel | 5% | 50 |
| West Thebby Social Club | 5% | 48 |
| Stein's Taphouse and Wine Bar | 3% | 35 |
| Oostende Belgian Beer Cafe | 2% | 21 |
| The Austral | 2% | 20 |
| The Highway | 2% | 20 |
| Malt Shovel Taphouse Adelaide | 2% | 19 |
| The Warradale Hotel | 2% | 19 |
| Crafers Inn Hotel | 2% | 17 |
| Earl of Leicester | 2% | 17 |
| The Original Coopers Alehouse | 2% | 17 |
| The Little Pub | 1% | 14 |
| Duck Inn | 1% | 12 |
| The Kings Head Hotel | 1% | 12 |
| Mick O'Shea's | 1% | 11 |
| The Lighthouse Wharf Hotel | 1% | 11 |
| Colonist Tavern | 1% | 10 |
| Stirling Hotel | 1% | 10 |
| The Elephant British Pub | 1% | 9 |
| The Jungle (Kent Town Hotel) | 1% | 9 |
| Wurst and Stein | 1% | 9 |
| Benjamin on Franklin | 1% | 7 |
| Mile End Hotel | 1% | 7 |
| The Earl of Leicester | 1% | 7 |
| The Royal Oak | 1% | 7 |
| The Prince Albert | 1% | 6 |
*Includes all venues that got over 1% of votes.
Western Australia's Favourite Craft Beer Bar/Pub
Full results*:
| Venue | % | Total votes |
| Dutch Trading Co. (DTC) | 19% | 206 |
| Petition Beer Corner | 12% | 136 |
| Besk @ West Leederville | 11% | 121 |
| The Firestation Specialty Beer and Wine Bar | 5% | 57 |
| Clancy's Fish Pub Dunsborough | 4% | 47 |
| Norfolk Hotel | 4% | 43 |
| Clancy's Fish Pub Fremantle | 3% | 32 |
| Beerpourium | 2% | 25 |
| Sail & Anchor Hotel | 2% | 23 |
| The Mechanics Institute | 2% | 22 |
| Belgian Beer Cafe | 2% | 21 |
| Duckstein Brewery | 2% | 21 |
| Balmoral Hotel | 2% | 19 |
| The 21st Amendment, Leederville | 2% | 18 |
| The Lucky Shag | 1% | 16 |
| The Rosemount Hotel | 1% | 15 |
| El Grotto | 1% | 13 |
| Pirate Bar | 1% | 13 |
| The Generous Squire | 1% | 13 |
| Clancy's Fish City Beach | 1% | 12 |
| The Sandbar Scarborough Beach | 1% | 12 |
| Clancy's Fish Pub Canning Bridge | 1% | 10 |
| Refuge Small Bar | 1% | 10 |
| Strange Company | 1% | 9 |
| The Left Bank | 1% | 9 |
| Varnish on King | 1% | 9 |
| Bob's Bar | 1% | 7 |
| The Brisbane Hotel | 1% | 7 |
| The Pour House Bar + Kitchen | 1% | 7 |
| The Wembley Hotel | 1% | 7 |
| National Hotel | 1% | 6 |
| The Common | 1% | 6 |
| The Royal on The Waterfront | 1% | 6 |
*Includes all venues that got over 1% of votes.
Full results of the 2020 Australian Craft Beer Survey here.